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Steffie Schuster

Steffie Schuster was a childhood friend of Otto Frank.

Person

  • Stephanie Kathinka Schuster
  • Born on: March 8, 1890
  • Born in: Frankfurt am Main, Duitsland
  • Died on: Dec. 11, 1942
  • Died in: Auschwitz

Steffie Schuster was a childhood friend of Otto Frank; she introduced him in 1940 to Fritz Pfeffer and Lotte Kaletta.[1] Pfeffer lived at her address on Rivierenlaan from 19 May to 17 June 1940,[2], as well as Charlotte Kaletta, who lived there until 1946. Stephanie Schuster was married to Hermann Meijer and had two children. Meijer died on an unknown date. Her personal record card (1948 reconstruction) places her at the last address from 2 September 1933, coming from Hamburg.[3]

On 19 April 1939 her German nationality was revoked.[4]

From 12 December 1940, Koos Vorrink, former chairman of the Dutch socialist party SDAP, was registered at her address.[5]  On 25 August 1941, at around ten o'clock in the evening, she was assaulted by two unknown persons on Rivierenlaan, near Waalstraat. This led to a headache, which caused her to go to a doctor the following day.[6] On 11 December 1942 she and her daughter Irmgard (1925) were killed at the same time in Auschwitz.[7] Her son Heinz (1923) suffered the same fate in September of that year.[8] 

Otto Frank wrote to his mother in 1945: "Von Steffie wird man wohl nichts mehr hören. Wir sprechen oft von ihr, nämlich Frau Pfeffer und ich. Sie hat bei Steffie jahrelang gewohnt."[9]

Source personal data.[3] Addresses: Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 78 I, Amsterdam (2 September 1935); Rivierenlaan 270 I, Amsterdam (19 September 1935).[10]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), Otto Frank Archief (OFA), reg. code A_OFrank_I_015: "Erklärung",. 4 september 1951.  
  2. ^ Stadsarchief Amsterdam (SAA), Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam, inv. nr. 4046: Vreemdelingenkaart Fritz Pfeffer.
  3. a, b SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiekaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiekaart S.K. Schuster.
  4. ^ Hans Georg Lehmann & Michael Hepp (Einl.), Die Ausbürgerung deutscher Staatsangehöriger 1933 – 45 nach den im Reichsanzeiger veröffentlichten Listen. Band 1. Listen in chronologischer Reihenfolge, München: Saur, 1985, p. 151.
  5. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsgsregister, Woningkaarten (toegangsnummer 5445), inv. nr. 299: Woningkaart Rivierenlaan 270-I.
  6. ^ SAA, Gemeentepolitie Amsterdam, inv. nr. 6648: Rapporten Pieter Aertszstraat, 25 augustus 1941, mut. 23.10.
  7. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Irmgard Meijer.
  8. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart Heinz Meijer (1923).
  9. ^ AFS, AFC, reg. code OFA_072: Otto Frank aan Alice Frank-Stern, 6 september 1945.
  10. ^ SAA, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Gezinskaarten (toegangsnummer 5422): Gezinskaart Hermann Meijer.